Svetlana Krivelyova

Svetlana Kriweljowa (Russian Светлана Владимировна Кривелёва, English transcription Svetlana Krivelyova, . Born June 13, 1969 in Bryansk ) is a former Russian shot-putter and Olympic champion.

Svetlana Kriweljowa entered the circle of the world's best even in the days of the Soviet Union when she was fourth at the 1988 Junior World Championships.

At the 1991 World Championships she won the bronze medal behind Huang Zhihong (CHN ) and Natalia Lissowskaja (RUS ). The following year, at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, she won the gold medal ahead of Huang and Kathrin Neimke (GER ).

1993 at the World Championships in Stuttgart she won silver behind Huang and before Neimke.

After a two year break, they failed in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta in qualifying. Only with their title at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Maebashi in 1999 they came back in front of the medal ranks. In the same year she was at the World Championships in Seville third behind the two German Astrid Kumbernuss and Nadine Kleinert. In the 2000 Olympics she finished fourth.

Both at the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon in 2001 and at the European Championships in Munich in 2002, she won the bronze medal. The following year she won at the World Championships in Paris Nadseja Astaptschuk ( BLR) and Wita Pawlysch (UKR ).

In 2004 she became World Indoor Champion after Wita Pawlysch, the first was disallowed at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest for doping the title.

Also of a subsequent doping disqualification they initially benefited at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where they aufrückte behind Yumileidi CUMBA (CUB ) and Nadine Kleinert (GER ) on the bronze medal after the top ranked Irina Korschanenko had fallen by the doping test. Kriweljowa was, however, the medal also withdrawn in December 2012 after the IOC again let doping samples from Athens with improved methods to test.

In its last season Kriweljowa was fourth at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki.

Svetlana Kriweljowa had a competition weight of 100 kg at a height of 1.82 m.